The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (PSG) conducted a survey on patient safety culture in Autumn 2021 and invited pharmacy staff from across the UK to participate. This anonymous survey sought to understand patient safety practice from the perspective of frontline pharmacy teams. A similar survey was carried out by the Patient Safety Group in … Continue reading Safety culture survey 2021
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Pharmacy teams are less likely to be afraid of reporting dispensing errors since the legal defence for dispensing errors was introduced last April, the findings of a new survey published today (18 December) suggests. The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (PSG) conducted a survey on patient safety culture in April and May 2019, and invited … Continue reading Safety culture survey 2019
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced on 6 February 2018 that he was asking Professor Sir Norman Williams to conduct a rapid policy review into the issues pertaining to gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare. Working with stakeholders, the Review considered: how to ensure healthcare professionals are adequately informed about: where and … Continue reading Williams Review
In September 2014, on behalf of the community pharmacy sector, Pharmacy Voice committed to NHS England’s Sign up to Safety campaign, and outlined what it was doing to support the role that community pharmacy can play in putting patient safety at the heart of the NHS. NHS England’s vision is for the NHS to become … Continue reading Sign up to Safety
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